Category

Originally published in Tincture A new European research project is building the first device-agnostic digital health platform. It will allow healthcare providers to collect and analyze data from any wearable or smartphone. The wearable technology market has accelerated since the launch of the Pebble watch three years ago. In 2015 alone over 72 million watch […]

Start up of the month is on hold for this month (and possibly next) while I finish finals. In the meantime, I took a couple of days off for the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) 10th Innovation Summit, followed hot on its heels by WIRED Health. At both events the star of the show was the […]

A paper published last year from UC Berkley has explores the possibility of a remarkable solution for brain-machine interfaces (BMI). ‘Neural dust’ involved the placing of thousands of thousands of 10 – 100 µm, free-floating, independent sensors inside the cortex, in between neurons. They would detect and report local electrical signals from neural activity. This information […]